The JooJoo tablet only racked up 90 preorders

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You only need to gloss over a brief history of the JooJoo Tablet to see its a cursed device. The JooJoo Tablet was once the Crunchpad, a small, affordable internet-browsing tablet dreamed up by Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington, but a week before pre-orders were to be accepted, the Crunchpad’s manufacturing partners, Fusion Garage, stole the design and cut out Arrington. In the widely-publicized controversy that followed, Fusion Garage changed the name of the Crunchpad to the JooJoo Tablet and opened up pre-orders… just as Apple announced its own (superior) tablet, the iPad, which boasts an identical price as the JooJoo.

Needless to say, only a fool would have pre-ordered a JooJoo given all the controversy, the questionable ethics of the manufacturer and the imminent arrival of the iPad. How many fools exactly? 90 worldwide, according to PayPal documents from the JooJoo/Techcrunch lawsuit.

Of those 90 devices pre-ordered, a full 15 became cancellations… even though Fusion Garage did everything in their power to prevent customers from canceling. That means that Fusion Garage has only racked up $37,500 to not only go into full scale production of the JooJoo Tablet, but fight a messy lawsuit against Techcrunch.

Looking at these numbers, it’s hard to see a bright future for the JooJoo Tablet… especially now that it’s competing with the iPad. Anyone considering ordering one should think long and hard about post-purchase support given by a company that is, in all likelihood, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.